Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

issues its prompt before the gcc child process writes its message. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN

Re: R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

to connect and gives up. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Finding either boot time or login time

web searching suggests that not counting sleep time is probably consistent with recent Linux behaviour. I also noticed that the Windows Vista 'systeminfo' command gives the same wrong answer for System Boot Time. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP

Re: Finding either boot time or login time

then there is not really anything cygwin can do to get around that. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12

Re: More questions about mkgroup and mkpasswd

domains but since I am not in that situation any more, I can't provide and details based on current experience. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered

Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8

languages that use fixed size number representations. It can be fatal - for example see http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered

Re: Spurious [ANNOUNCEMENT]s

archive at Nabble.com. If you follow that link the message does not have the [ANNOUNCEMENT] in the subject when displayed there. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail

: unexpected end of file This is not Cygwin specific. You get the same results on Linux provided that you copy the scripts across in binary mode preserving the \r characters at the ends of the lines. See the archives for much discussion of bash and \r. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

). -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

in headings of various MSDN articles), the thing you get running bash if you start up a shell window in a conventional Cygwin installation. As for rxvt, it's available as a cygwin package if you want to know more about it. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info

Re: find missing parameter

(specifically findutils) is reasonable recent, you can use find . -name db* -mtime +2 -type f -exec /bin/rm {} + to do more or less the same as with xargs. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: useradd user ids

of 1 there but 'mkpasswd -l -c' offers me an entry with a uid that is my 6-digit RID plus 1. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: useradd user ids

account I can see that the uid generation does straightforward arithmetic and not some sort of string processing. (Is it really 19106 this year? Some people wrote code that thinks so.) -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 download

where it appears.) -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Can not Contact Domain Controller

call of mkpasswd but this will replace the previous contents of /etc/passwd deleting all the local account data. You should use ' /etc/passwd' to append the extra line. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: mkpasswd group

had to specify the domain explicitly, the one that is used if I just use -d is not the domain that contains my account. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

not involved) but it is harder to judge the delay there. I suspect it may be the keyboard or perhaps the KVM switch, but at least for me it is not Cygwin specific. It also happens for SHIFT, and probably other modifiers too, but I have not tested that. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

in the covered region. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

--On 20 May 2005 09:43 +0100 Owen Rees wrote: The popups appear with two Windows windows on top of the emacs window, but if a cygwin/X window is interposed (e.g. xterm) the emacs popups do not appear in the covered region. I have just noticed that the popups appear even if the X window

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

etc. that it is associated with is covered by another window. In other words, you get a tooltip for something you can't see. I think that ought to be considered a bug. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

Re: Popups popping through windows using built-in rootless WM

these events, nor do they generate the events when the event tester window is restored. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm

in a loop until it succeeds before launching the xterm. xrdb -query seems a reasonable candidate. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

RE: bad installation ?

domain structure. You might also think that 'mkpasswd -l -c' would give you an entry for the current domain user that has the same group id as you get by using the invocation shown above, but this is not necessarily so. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info

RE: bad installation ?

difference. In reading the man page for mkpasswd I did not realise that current domain apparently does not mean the domain in which my login id is defined. -- Owen Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK tel: +44 117 312 9439 fax: +44 117 312 8924

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

and X forwarded over SSH, and with no problems observed so far. The severe performance problems appeared some time in August IIRC, and my first impression is that the performance is now better than before the problems. Regards, Owen Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

and X forwarded over SSH, and with no problems observed so far. The severe performance problems appeared some time in August IIRC, and my first impression is that the performance is now better than before the problems. Regards, Owen Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol

Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

--On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 16:54:37 -0500 Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: At 07:56 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Is there a place where all these (I assume ANSI) escape sequences for colors are listed? When I have that information, I can probably untic an existing terminfo entry,